{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2018/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2018/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/132",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2018",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015",
  "text": "In Part 24 (Trial and sentence in a magistrates’ court)—\n(a) in rule 24.12 (Procedure where a party is absent), for paragraph (4) substitute—\n“(4) Where the defendant is absent, the court—\n(a) must exercise its power to issue a warrant for the defendant’s arrest and detention in the terms required by rule 13.3(3) (Terms of a warrant for detention or imprisonment), if it passes a custodial sentence; and\n(b) may exercise its power to issue a warrant for the defendant’s arrest in any other case, if it does not apply the general rule in paragraph (3)(a) of this rule about proceeding in the defendant’s absence.”; and\n(b) in the note to rule 24.12, at the end of the fourth sentence after “that sentence” insert “: see also rule 13.3”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/132/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:02:40.546973+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}